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Something Like Happy (Paperback)
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Something Like Happy (Paperback)
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List price R484
Loot Price R391
Discovery Miles 3 910
You Save R93 (19%)
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In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives
of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished
by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men - lonely,
unfaithful, dying - driving empty roads at night. These are people
for whom the idea of 'home' has become increasingly intangible,
hard to believe - and happiness, or grace, or freedom, all now seem
to belong in some kind of dream, or a fable they might have read in
a children's picture book. As he says in one story, 'All a man has
is his work and his sense of himself, all the secret life he holds
inside that nobody else can know.' But in each of these normal,
damaged lives, we are shown something extraordinary: a dogged
belief in some kind of hope or beauty that flies in the face of all
reason and is, as a result, both transfiguring and heart-rending.
John Burnside is unique in contemporary British letters: he is one
of our best living poets, but he is also a thrillingly talented
writer of fiction. These exquisitely written pieces, each weighted
so perfectly, opens up the whole wound of a life in one moment -
and each of these twelve short stories carries the freight and
density of a great novel.
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